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I had a question about a cooking time/temp conversion.
I have a recipe for (literally "World-Class") brownies that I got from the pastry chef at a restaurant I used to work at in San Francisco.
The brownies that he made wound up being about 1" thick, and a 4" x 4" x 1" brownie weighed about a pound (being only slightly facetious)...they were incredibly dense (just short of being fudge consistency).
Anyway, I halved his recipe because I don't have an industrial tray that big (nor would it fit in my home oven if did).
His recipe called for baking his tray for 45-50 minutes @ 325*
I poured my batter into a 17"x12"x3" foil lined pan (and just for my own knowledge, measured the batter depth to be 1/2") and popped it in the oven....
I checked them at 35min, then 45, then 50 and every 5 minutes until I just pulled them out at 105 minutes. I couldn't let them go any longer because they were on the verge of smelling burnt.
The top edges were starting to lose their airpockets and started looking like smooth, flaky-if-you-touched them, cocoa-brown brownie edges,...but the center is still slightly moist when I toothpick it (in addition to the air bubble holes that are still visible on the center surface of the tray making it look like an aerated lawn).
When I lifted the brownies up by the foil ends (lengthwise), what I was hoping to be a "slab" consistency, sags like a devils' food cake in a hammock.
So, I guess I have a couple of questions for next time I make these:
1) Did I make the batter depth too thick? (I mean, they turned out fluffy, but it took FOREVER, and they're not the dense consistency I was shooting for).
2) When making the batter, the recipe said to blend the Eggs, Sugar, Vanilla and Salt into a Stiff Ribbon....so I put the Kitchen Aid on 6 and let'er-rip for about 5 minutes....could I have whipped too much air into the batter and either shouldn't have done that...OR...should have let the batter settle (i.e.: release some of the airpockets within) before popping it in the oven?
3) Provided I get an answer to my "density" (or lack thereof) question, is there any rule of thumb for increasing the temperature by "X" and subsequently decreasing the cook time by "Y"?
While I'm waiting for feedback on this post,...if anybody has a recipe for a brownie the consistency and weight of a Fort Knox Gold Bar, I'd love to hear from you.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Justin
I have a recipe for (literally "World-Class") brownies that I got from the pastry chef at a restaurant I used to work at in San Francisco.
The brownies that he made wound up being about 1" thick, and a 4" x 4" x 1" brownie weighed about a pound (being only slightly facetious)...they were incredibly dense (just short of being fudge consistency).
Anyway, I halved his recipe because I don't have an industrial tray that big (nor would it fit in my home oven if did).
His recipe called for baking his tray for 45-50 minutes @ 325*
I poured my batter into a 17"x12"x3" foil lined pan (and just for my own knowledge, measured the batter depth to be 1/2") and popped it in the oven....
I checked them at 35min, then 45, then 50 and every 5 minutes until I just pulled them out at 105 minutes. I couldn't let them go any longer because they were on the verge of smelling burnt.
The top edges were starting to lose their airpockets and started looking like smooth, flaky-if-you-touched them, cocoa-brown brownie edges,...but the center is still slightly moist when I toothpick it (in addition to the air bubble holes that are still visible on the center surface of the tray making it look like an aerated lawn).
When I lifted the brownies up by the foil ends (lengthwise), what I was hoping to be a "slab" consistency, sags like a devils' food cake in a hammock.
So, I guess I have a couple of questions for next time I make these:
1) Did I make the batter depth too thick? (I mean, they turned out fluffy, but it took FOREVER, and they're not the dense consistency I was shooting for).
2) When making the batter, the recipe said to blend the Eggs, Sugar, Vanilla and Salt into a Stiff Ribbon....so I put the Kitchen Aid on 6 and let'er-rip for about 5 minutes....could I have whipped too much air into the batter and either shouldn't have done that...OR...should have let the batter settle (i.e.: release some of the airpockets within) before popping it in the oven?
3) Provided I get an answer to my "density" (or lack thereof) question, is there any rule of thumb for increasing the temperature by "X" and subsequently decreasing the cook time by "Y"?
While I'm waiting for feedback on this post,...if anybody has a recipe for a brownie the consistency and weight of a Fort Knox Gold Bar, I'd love to hear from you.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Justin
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